27 Days to #Vanlife

I am now under one month. Time always goes faster than you think. I started this blog in January with 130 days to go. What have I really done in the last 100 days? It never feels like I have done enough or like I have done anything meaningful. Sure I have made a lot of progress on the van. I have spent a lot of time with my parents. There hasn't been anything really preventing me from doing whatever I want but yet I still have the feeling of the last 100ish days being a blink. How do you slow down time? Some days feel like they last weeks, and others its as if you are on autopilot until you realize its time to sleep. Hoping to find some of these answers soon.

Corona is still dominating the world and ever single conversation with everyone. It is exhausting. It's hasn't gotten better but yet it doesn't feel as scary anymore. Maybe because we are adapting to a new normal? Maybe because we just don't get care anymore? We are kind of blessed being in WA because parts of the country and world are WAY worse. Ignorance is bliss I guess. I am completely over the constant corona conversations and all the politics with every single decision. America seems so divided right now. Has it always been this way? or I am just paying more attention now because I am older? It doesn't need to be like this but America will never figure that out. I sound so bleak right now, but all this shit is so mentally draining. I feel like I want to runaway and completely "disconnect".

Surprisingly work has turned into a safe place from this madness. I really don't mind working at home anymore and actually working provides a nice escape. Of course I would rather being doing a million other things but it is nice to not dread working for the time being. I am thriving at work at a time where it seems my peers are struggling the most. They can't concentrate or be productive where as I have never been more productive. It's a shame because they cut our pay and raises seem completely out of the question because of all this so I can understand why my peers feel the way they do.

Last weekend I went over to Pullman and spent the whole week with the loves of my life, James and Chey. I had more time slowing moments there than the entire 100 days over here. Maybe that's the key, small towns, close community, and best friends. I worked over there all week without any issues, that was a great sign for me. We started off my visit with a virtual wine tasting which was so much fun. We drank five bottles between the three of us which was way too much, ask James about that. The following weekend we went to Wawawai in the vans for a night by the river. It was my first night in the van. It got me really excited for whats to come. I probably would have stayed longer as there was nothing really preventing me from leaving other than my lease ending this month. I am currently in the process of packing everything up.

I am trying to think of what else to cover from the past month of my absence. I like how I talked about posting more often and then did the exact opposite. I am just going to hit some highlights to come to my head. I made it through my third tax season at work. My roommate Austin and I bonded a lot. I joined a book club with James and Chey. Started watch Goonzquad on YouTube religiously. Yeah that's all I got other than van updates. Explains why I haven't posted.